What do you all think? I think for a pg-13 movie this movie is very scary! Today this movie would most likely be rated R. Also in my opinion return to oz is the scariest kid's disney movie ever just as a side note lol.
shareThe War of the Worlds remake from 2005 is up there.
shareCertainly when i was a kid, but now it's just fun.
shareIt would probably make the top 10.
shareback then even for a PG horror movie aimed more for kids and teens, the movie end up a little scary and gory with the ghoul pretending to be the father its face getting squished in with Glen's hands. that and the dog dying. Other than that the movie was and still is a pretty good horror movie to watch
shareProphecy from 1979 would beat it.
shareAs said, one's age when first seeing it would likely affect how much it scared you. And a quick search revealed the PG-13 rating did not exist before 1984.
I don't remember exactly how old I was when I first saw it, but I wasn't young. Did enjoy it, though.
A quick advanced IMDb search found these that I'd consider more frightening, most seen as an adult, no less:
The Ring (2002)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) - rated GP, which apparently IMDb equates with PG-13
The Fourth Kind (2009)
The Sixth Sense (1999) - noticed in another post. Odd It's not listed as horror on IMDb.
'JAWS' (1975) surely?
shareI won't tell anyone they're wrong filing Jaws in the horror genre, but as a huge horror fan, I just can't bring myself to do it. Sure it's got more than one scene that scares me, but maybe my reluctance is that it's just because it's a shark doing shark things. Know what I mean? I won't argue this point too strongly at all, but to me it's an action/adventure thriller with horror elements.
shareI've had this debate countless times with others (and will likely have it countless times in the future) but to me JAWS is the scariest movie ever. It scared thousands (if not millions) out of the water.
The attacks are scary, the shark is scary, the music is scary (hell, even the poster is scary) to me...that's a horror movie (despite any 'Moby Dick' style allusions in the third act),
The fact it's a (quote) "Shark doing Shark things" is what makes it all the more scarier...it's a reality based dread that could happen to anyone out at sea.
Isn't (the otherwise highly unbelievable) 'Exorcist'...merely the Devil doing Devil-things...or 'Psycho' a Maniac doing Maniac things?
So we're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one, i'm afraid.
I don't even strongly disagree. For instance, Mulholland Dr. contains possibly the single most terrifying scene in cinema, imo, but I can't call it a pure horror movie, either.
On a side note, my most often had horror argument is I prefer Snyder's DotD (2004) to Romero's 1978 original.
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